Line-Item Veto: Trimming the Pork

Publication Date: April 1984

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): John M. Palffy

Research Area: Banking and finance

Keywords: Budget

Type: Report

Abstract:

A line-item veto would be no fiscal panacea. It does not even address the primary federal spending problem--the spiraling growth of entitlements. Nor would it deal with many of the serious shortcomings of the congressional budget process. But by taking the handcuffs off the President in the appropriations process, the line-item veto would constitute an important first step toward fiscal responsibility.